Ebook: The Edinburgh History of Reading: Subversive Readers
Author: Jonathan Rose
- Year: 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Language: English
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Reveals the experience of reading in many cultures and across the ages
- Covers pornography and the origins of the transgender movement
- Explores everyday reading in Nazi Germany
- Analyses prison reading
- Examines reading in revolutionary societies and occupied nations
Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independence and imagine a better world. This kind of insurgent reading may be found everywhere: in revolutionary France and Nazi Germany, in Eastern Europe under Communism and in Australian and Iranian prisons, among eighteenth-century women reading history and nineteenth-century men reading erotica, among postcolonial Africans, the blind, and pioneering transgender activists.
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